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Web Design Portfolio

Although I currently specialize in 68 Classifieds websites, I have been doing web design and development for over a dozen years and therefore have worked with several different systems.

I have designed custom sites from scratch starting with a blank text document as well as a blank Photoshop™ window. In addition, I have experience with several other CMS systems. Commerce sites based on the open source osCommerce and Zen Cart as well as commercial sites with Sunshop.

Other CMS systems include Mambo, Joomla, Drupal and phpWebSite.

Here are just a few of the sites that I have done:

The Indiana PA Community Website is my own pet project. This site is a fully customized 68 Classifieds site where I used 68 Classifieds as the content management system (CMS) for the entire site. I really feel as though this is a showcase for the capabilities of 68 Classifieds software script. Although I did have to customize quite a bit in order to pull off some of the features for the site, it shows the great flexibility of the Developers version. There is dynamic content that only shows to special users, customized contact pages based on the page when clicked, Google™ Calendar integration and a whole lot more.

Last Minute Weddings is another 68 Classifieds website. This is a unique take on a highly competitive market in the UK. I was responsible for upgrading the entire site and as I would call it, a re-skinning of the design. The header image was supplied by the owner although I did do some re-touching of it. I did some modifications to functionality on the back end as well as work done by others.

Slatwall For Less is an osCommerce based site. This was a challenge in the fact that the client had several very specific requirements based on his needs. This actually required several separate osCommerce installs accessed through a common home page. I put together a US map with Photoshop to direct the end users to choose their regional shop which took them to that particular regional installation of the storefront.

ibyllup.no is another 68 Classifieds site that I did in Norway. It specializes in wedding products and services. This site design was the site owners vision and all the elements were supplied to me by the site owner. The challenge here was that I incorporated two different purchased third party templates as well as the design elements of the owner. In addition, there were several specific enhancements that were needed by the owner that were not part of the classifeds.

If you like what you see in my portfolio and would like to consider me doing some work for your website, feel free to Contact Me with your request.

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